The English got this from the Danish, it is called the 'th' sound. For instance the word 'with', The last th sound, you don't pronounce it as a 'f'' or a 's' neither a 'h', it is a typical th sound. Now pronouce tha th sound for the Danish word 'mad'. You it nearly sounds like a 'l' while it isn't! :)
actually it shouldn't be too hard to pronounce for English speaking people.. the 'D' in 'MED' is the exact same sound as the sound 'TH' produces in the English word 'THat'.
Don't confuse it with the sound 'TH' produces in 'baTH' e.g. - there's a difference...
@sisusdk Du er ynkelig. Og det staves giv "op" ikke "up". Og det staves for resten også "udlænding" og ikke udllæning". Meget sødt ellers. Og lige en sidste ting din engelske sætning "to take some body with you" staves 1) somebody i ét ord og ikke to, med mindre du mener man tager "en krop" og 2) with og ikke whit.
@andreasnorup true, it can be pronounced that way, but it's not correct. It's often said that way, though. It's not me, but mæ. It's more like a dialect.
The Danish language sounds like someone throwing up. I guess that evolved in tandem with their notorious binge drinking. What a crap, overrated country.
Im danish, and my father is german, and my friends american and only danish people can hear that theres no L in "med", all other hear an L in "med", which is very wierd, but okay, so is the danish language! So stop calling this stupid, cause hes not the only one hearing the L
@aquillianx It's because they simply don't have the soft d, so they don't know how it sounds. Well, the American actually does, so it's curious that they can't hear the d.
@xbankaix007 Nej, det er fordi folk ikke kan høre lyde de ikke har lært, så det er lige omvendt. Vi kan høre D, fordi vi kan skelne den bløde D lyd fra L. Den bløde D lyd er den lyd som udlændinge har klart sværest ved at finde ud af, fordi den slet ikke er et d, men derimod et ð., Tænk på ord som bal – bad, mal – mad. Specielt i det første tilfælde, her er ba udtalt helt identisk, kun l og d er forskellige. Der er en klart forskel på de to udtaler.
Being Danish, I cannot hear an L at all, all I hear is the soft D-sound. And no, it's not like the "th"-sound in English, I really have no idea how to explain it, ha ha. But I guess most foreigners' ears hear it as more of an L-sound.
@Pekin1st You're wrong, it actually is like the th sound, but in modified form. Unlike the "th" sound, in Danish it's never the first letter in a word. It's called a voiced dental fricative, and the soft "d" is the same as the Icelandic letter "ð". It's a pity we don't use that letter instead of d, since it's much more appropriate. Just think of the Danish word fader, and the English word father. Obviously, the "a" sounds different.
I guess that according to some of the comments the english words " the, that, their, theese," and with, both,path,smooth " not to mention " bother, rather "or " mother "and "father " could as well be spelled like ; " le,la,leir, leese" , " wil, bol,pal,smool " , " boler, raler " " moler" and " faler ". hmm - well ok len, from now on lat is le new way of spelling lem in order to meet le delicate english ear and it´s refined and sofisticated demands on it´s own terms.
@BongoBib No....she is not saying "meth" is she? So do not compare it to the English "th" sound because it is different. It is simple and nothing to get irritated about. To most foreign ears it is a sort of "l" and to Danes it is a soft "d". So we hear the same, we call it somehting different. That s all.
@Serenoj69 try not to pay somuch attention to what the girl says in this footage,as already pointed out she is, atleast the first time, pronouncing the word somewhat distorted, probably due to surpise from being asked. Yes, it is infact "meth", only; as I stated it earlier compared to the usual "th" consonant as in the ending of " with" it´s supposed to be shorter, less whispering,hence the suggest to insert the initiating consonant in " the " at the end of " m+e ,e pronounced as ea in Hampstead
@Serenoj69 yes I do compare it to the english " th " , but the " initiating th " not the ending " th ", I do that because theyre absolutely 100 % identical. The reason why as you suggest, " to the english ear " they sound different, and you might tend to hear an " L " sound might very well be that you´re not acustomed to hear that soft D in the end of a word, and then psycologically construct a sound in your mind that fits better with the expected.
@Serenoj69 notice, that if you investigate from a scientific phonetic point of view, in order to make an " L " sound, you´d raise your tounge ( even let the tip meet the palate ) which isn´t in any way the case here ( tip of tongue softly leaning against backside of lower front teeth instead of as expected the upper, allowing tongue to lean slightly forward and ,when exaggerating it in order to instruct, even let it come out a bit, which though isn´t really the supposedly correct manner)
Both are correct - but coming from different languages. In English "L" has two sounds. The first "L" in 'little' is like in "LUH" (tip of your tongue flips on the back of your top teeth), the second "L" has the sound lke "EL" (voice stops before your tongue flips). In some languages, those two "L" sounds would be written with different characters.
The sound at the end of Danish 'med' is the very soft "EL" sound. Danish speakers don't recognise it as an "L" sound, but English speakers do!
@Gordonedwardmurray thank you for sorting out the " L - l " question considering the spoken english language.There is however not the least trace of any L,big or small to be heard in the danish word "med " as it isn´t here in the footage either.Like Someone2Follow points out, it´s simply a matter of taking the english " th " sound as known e g from the initial consonant sound in the word " the " and add it to the first 2 letters ( m + e , - the e pronounced somewhat like the ea in Hampstead )
@Gordonedwardmurray Boompieper is Dutch, I am sort of Dutch (lived in NL all my life). And we hear exactly the same. It is okey for me if Danes hear a D. But when someone talks about hearing problems I wonders who has them. Us or someone who says that this L sound is the same as the English "th" sound...It is not even close.
The d is pronounced ð, so it's a soft kind of d. Like pronouncing "the" in English. Exact same sound. LOOKS similar, but hey, not everyone knows how to read lips.
@Nurken7 I was in København last month and said Flølbolle (written as flødebolle). And than asked the young men in the gasstation if I pronounced it correctly. Yes, it was perfect...."Yes?" Yes he assured me and repeated the word from what we call a Negerzoen over here. Or used to call, before politically correct people found it offensive to negroes. Danmark is a copy of The Netherlands btw. I went by car. Was there for 5 days. Never felt abroad. Like I was not having an holiday at all....
The Danish way to pronounce d on the end of a word is a bit like when the English language is using a word with th, such as "weather" or "with". A very soft d.
My mom speaks Danish. Since I heard Danish so much growing up, but hardly ever spoke it, I can hear many of the different sounds but can't pronounce them.
After a baby reaches about 4 years old, the baby's brain has learned the special sounds of the language (or languages) the baby has been exposed to. Adults have to struggle to teach their brains to learn the difference in sounds like /ch/ and /sh/ if their mother tongue doesn't have it, whereas if they had grown up hearing the sounds it would be easy. I hear something kind of like an /l/ here, but I can't pronounce it right.
Hey guys I really can hear a 'L' in this world, so softly as they (Danes) are talking about, and sincerely I prefer a 'D' that sounds like an 'L' than an 'I' that you never now how it sounds in a world in English, like (ai), idiot (i) and other oddities :)
Amazing that this still gets flames. To Danes' POV, it's a 'D' sound. To non-Danes' POV, it sounds like an 'L' sound. Why? Because a final 'D' is soft in enunciation. In fact, many Danes will teach you to stick out your tongue to exaggerate the softness. AS A SIDE EFFECT, we non-Danes hear this 'L' sound. I repeat, AS A SIDE EFFECT, we interpret this strange soft sound as an L. It's the CLOSEST SOUND we got in English.
@akujinnoeso no, - the closest and practically the identical sound is the " th " as you ought to know very well from the initial consonant sound in the english word " the ". Also the ending consonant in the english word " with " got some basic similarity, though in that case it tends to be drawn a bit longer and overall exaggerated.But even in that case - you do not hear any " L " sound in the english word " with " do you ? I don´t nkow why this was ever brought up - some hearing disabilities ?
I'll be in Denmark for a week near Christmas. Now many things seem to be closed...If I have really really really nothing to do I could of course visit one of the few pubs that are opened and start a discussion about the strange "L" sound . That should keep me busy for quite some time I guess...
@Serenoj69 there is no " L sound " - unless you think there´s an " L sound " in the end of the english word " with " or and " L sound " in the beginning of the english word " the "
@BongoBib Do you notice that virtually only Danes say it is a soft "d" and others hear an L. So the solution is simple: Danes call this sound a "D" the rest of the world call it an "L". To my ears, it does not even come close to the English "th" sound. It is way of. It seems to me that some see this as some sort of an attack on their language, may be identity. Do some over here think that if they insist it is a D others will than change their opinion? To Dutch ears: this is an "L". Period.
hahaha I was on the plane going to Norway and I sat next to a dane and I struck up a conversation and I couldn't understand half of what he was saying. He asked me " Hva heter du?" and it dounded like Hvo huella due? hahaha
@boompieper well im not danish, im not bright. Dont you get how stupid you are? are you seriously wondering why people from other countries pronounce their words differently?
Again with the offensiveness..I thought you Danish people were a friendly, neutral, peaceful bunch. Guess it's a different story when it comes to posting replies to a video on youtube. Can't you seriously see a joke when it smacks you in the face?
Sorry, you're not Danish. Guess that's what you get for not taking the time to read (or watch) someone's message (or video) completely, but choose to respond anyway. Isn't it?
@boompieper Our friendliness and neutralism is seriously overrated. Though, we are some who aren't offended of a simple video on YouTube that shows our pronunciation... ;)
I see you point, but as I am danish too, I really hear a D, not an L :) I think she is pronouncing it in a slightly distorted way (or what ever you call it :D) because she says the word alone and not in a context :)
For the 'soft D', just rest your tongue at the bottom of your mouth, so that the tip of the tongue slightly touches the inside of your lower front teeth.
When you say 'L', you touch just behind the UPPER front teeth.
The danish soft 'D' is pronounsed without the slight pull back of the tongue. You just stick out the tongue between the teeth (not biting it) while making the sound.
The english 'L' makes your tongue do the same movement, but it ends with a pull back of the tip of the tongue, placing the tip just behind the upper frontal teeth.
Try it for your self. the placement of the tongue is often what makes a slight but existing difference. You don't notice if you're not aware of it.
No 'L' - what you hear is a 'soft D'. But you're right - people who knows too little about Danish language to express themselves about it often think so.
In danish its called a soft d. When pronouncing a soft d, your tounge is touching your bottom lip. But when making an L sound its touching your palate with the tip.
Ahaha, your comment made me laugh. I hope you slept it off okay. xD
I tried that, and it sounds good to me... of course, I wouldn't know what's right, but it's probably better than before! I only know a little Danish right now, but I'm slowly learning.
Could the unreleased 'D' contain an intermediate 'L' sound?
For example, in English, the word 'sense' is sometimes phonetically spelled in dictionaries as "sehnts", with that 'T' being in superscript. That's because it's difficult (at least in English) to go from 'n' to 's' without that intermediate T-sound stage. Thus, most English speakers are unaware that 'sense' can rhyme with 'rents' or 'dents', or even be a homonym with 'cents'.
Look, it's a very special 'd' sound that is really common in the danish language. We use it all the time. I'm pretty sure it's called a 'soft d' and it's really hard to say, if you did'nt grow with the language as your mothers tongue.
First, I'm American. It does sound like an [l] and not the phonetic [d]. The danish sounds more of a hard l. With the d in med is like a softer, uncompleted, less vibrated [ð] (is th like in mother), but same placement of tongue. You could do interdental perhaps. I think Danes (I'm just guessing) hear a jump or vibration in d, and l sound is without that. But, they both are /l/ in English This is probably what it is like when a Japanese person hears and r and l they can't tell the difference.
@drax325 - Good comment! ..But I think you mean dark L, when you say hard L? I understand why our pronunciation of d - must be strange to hear for English speakers. But when you point out an abnormal feature of our language, then you're actually also pointing out the same in your own language. In English, the value of L, like the Danish d, is depending on whether it's placed before or after a vowel. The L's of words like Loop and Well - are not the same.
I speak perfect danish, I am communications manager for a cell ph. company in Denmark. Every danish household I call, loves my voice, girls want me, as well as their mothers, because my voice is super native and KRISP. I might be a Dane or Not. But I get the job done...clean... TONE; LONE; PIA; KIA; og TINA M. Love it. Værsgo!
@0lifr and @d0dge25 : Do u really think that its worth to fight which language is more hysteric or more beautiful? Every language is a differend system used in a different society. And every language is beautiful and meaningful in its own way.
But as long as you dont accept that there is more than your own little world you will never understand that!
@scholemlegen .A whole language is reduced to - the "funny one" - by a person from a more prominent and historically dominant culture. What do you expect a speaker of that language to do?
This is HILARIOUS XD only cus ive been trying to teach my bf danish for sooo long ( he is english ) and i thought it was just HIM who couldnt get the whole D - NO L - thing.... LOL!
@d0dge25 - Just call it nitpicking, but I don't accept any German criticism. Germans have always seen Denmark, well Scandinavia, as their own backyard. Danish might sound hysterical to you, but the German language has a status of being one of the world's most parodied languages. Now, this is not just due to a couple of wars, it's also because of the ridiculous German sounds. Harsh sounds like your ch-digraph, that contrast with your s- and tz-sounds only used by teenage girls in other countries.
After a vocal, the Danes pronounce -d as a soft kind of -ð. This sound is quite close to your th-digraph, but also close to the velarized -l of the English language. Few languages use -l like you do. And m0nsen93, trust me, neither Danish nor English is ever going to win the award for most beautiful language!
@boompieper Very funny. It's very characteristic for the danish language. When we talk, we have to go all the way back to our throats to get the right sound. When you talk english, you mostly talk at the tip of your tongue.
I'm laughing so hard over some of these comments. Danes are getting really pissed over the fact that this guy hears an L. No offense to Danes or anything, 'cause I'm Danish myself, but seriously, chill out! I really thinks it cute that he can't hear it the way we hear it.
The reason we hear 'med' with a 'soft D', is simply because we grew up with the sound, that we don't hear it as an L.
der er fucking ikke L i med din ratederet idiot!!!!!! nej nej nej nej hva fuck sker der for dig............ få dig dog et liv til at starte med.........
@boompieper better you dont understand what he wrote. but basically he is claiming that there is no L in "med" and asking hisself how you come to the idea that there is one... in an ... erm ... not exactly polite way^^
@boompieper Haha. He just cussed you out and basically called you a retarded idiot, funny thing is, I've never seen the danish word for "retarded" misspelled so horribly.
Anyway I know this video is old, but if you're still wondering: try to stick out your tongue when pronoucing the soft D-sound in this word.
Then compare it to when your tongue presses against the roof of your mouth as in a normal L-sound.
If you can't hear the difference, you should be able to feel it ;)
@mano2105 Retarderet. Det staves retarderet. Lidt uretfærdigt, at du sviner en udlænding til fordi han ikke kan vores sprog, nu du åbenbart selv har lidt problemer med det og du tilmed har det som modersmål.
Yo, Boomie: My German-Swedish-slightly Finnish ears and eyes saw and heard the girls making a "th" sound -- just like in English "with", so that makes sense. :-)
Stuff you don't learn to listen for when you're very little, you'll never be able to hear. Ergo: If you'd taken this lesson when you were younger than, say, seven, you'd be quite sure that that's NOT an "l" "soouuund"; since you didn't, to your ears, it "IS".
That's a property more of your ears than of what they're actually saying.
Danish kids learn to speak a half year later then there neighbors Sweden/Norway. This is not because Danish kids is stupier but because not even them understand there parents. It's been proven in studies.
For me from Sweden they sound like really drunk Norweigians trying to talk:)
For the sake of arguing. Im Danish (yeah), and what WE, and english ppl too, percieve as an L-'sound', is quite different from our 'ending'-D-'sound' (yeah its a mess), though you might just hear our 'ending'-D-'sound' as a 'lazy' L. Try saying the 'L-sound' without touching any part of your upper mouth with your toungue. And do a proper L-sound, not like 'melany', but more like Lee - because ppl tend to shorten pronounciation when its a part of a bigger word. There's your danish D
there is no fucking 'L' sound -.- the danish way of pronouncing the letter 'D' is just something that foreigners almost never understand or are able to do, but there is NO 'L' . . . . doesn't even sound like it, if you knew danish you'd also know what a dnish 'L' sounds like, which is different...
Not again...I must say, Danish people (assuming you're Danish) denying that this at least sooounnnds like an 'L' opens up a whole new discussion. It's like the Japanese denying that they're slaughtering dolphins. Everyone knows it, but still...Love your patriotism though, keep it up!
@boompieper it's not about patriotism, and it's not about fact. There ARE other languages in the world than english (assuming you are american) and not all letters sound the same in all languages, so it's basically about ignorance.
Ignorance, indeed. That's what I implied with my little Japanese analogy. And if you would have taken the time to read some of the other comments, instead of just posting the same comment every other angry Dane posts, you would've seen me stretching the fact that I'm not American, and am well familiar with people calling my language a throat disease.
@skyt92 There is a way to find out who is right. Say "med" and record, say "mel" and record, load into Matlab, copy the last letter of each word a separate array. Now, run an fft on each, observe the spectrum, also, do the cross-correlation and see the output. That would pretty much solve the whole debate in a scientific manner using basic signal processing.
And you're wrong. I think pretty much everyone would agree that there's an L SOUND. If there's one linguistically speaking, I'll leave that up for discussion.
@boompieper I watch my mouth? :P You watch yours old man. Nope, there's no "l" sound I really can't see how you can hear that. "L" sounds are made by applying your tongue to the palate, the soft "d" in the Danish language is made by applying the tongue to the tip of your upper front teeth. If you pronounce the sounds you'd be able to hear it. The only close connection between the two are the throat-sounds, which are close, but still not quite the same.
@boompieper For the sake of the argument, give it up. You're wrong, live with it. It only "works" because you put the back of your tongue against the palate while making the sound. Do you know how the strings on a guitar works? It's the "blocking" of the tone closest to the source that matters. To be clearer, you have to put your tongue against the palate to even make the "l" sound.
Ok, I'm wrong. And OK, I'll give up. Just after this. I'm not talking about how to make a linguistically correct L, as you seem to be. I'm talking about the 'soooound', just the sound. And there's no problem making an 'L' SOUND by putting your tongue against your front teeth in stead of your palate. See the clip.
There. I give up. No more reactions. Unless you get offensive again, then I'll have to go all smartass again.
O, and the guitar thing really cleared things up. Thanks!
There is no L sound in med..The closest is an "th" as in in the word "the" or "bath". Stop eating hamburgers and watch westernmovies, it might clear your ears..
it's not an "l". more of a "th" sound if anything. Same in "hedder", you say it more "hether" than "heller"
CorinWright 1 month ago
I suppose you also hear and see the english word "with" as "wil"? It's the same sound.
FesterBable 1 month ago
The English got this from the Danish, it is called the 'th' sound. For instance the word 'with', The last th sound, you don't pronounce it as a 'f'' or a 's' neither a 'h', it is a typical th sound. Now pronouce tha th sound for the Danish word 'mad'. You it nearly sounds like a 'l' while it isn't! :)
FrisoLustig 6 months ago
Med med med med med med .... "Hvor svært kan det være"... How hard can it be.. :P
TheMunk1984 9 months ago
You didn't hear a L, you heard a very short and flat D. Like biting yourself in your tongue. Tongue... the English without without "ue" or? :P
Hildoz2 9 months ago
im a dane...... Med is without L... end of case
TheMawofMadness 9 months ago
actually it shouldn't be too hard to pronounce for English speaking people.. the 'D' in 'MED' is the exact same sound as the sound 'TH' produces in the English word 'THat'.
Don't confuse it with the sound 'TH' produces in 'baTH' e.g. - there's a difference...
oelergodt 9 months ago
xD Why is this video focusing on one danish word, spelled and pronounced without an L?!
Acryingtear 9 months ago
Lol, kæft du er fail, that means you're an epic failure
Mr4pp 10 months ago 2
It's a "th" sound, like in "the," but just a little softer.
PamelaClare 10 months ago
Mel is used for backery. Med is "to take some body whit you" -- At tage nogen med dig. Lær det eller giv up. Amatør udlæninge.
sisusdk 10 months ago
@sisusdk Du er ynkelig. Og det staves giv "op" ikke "up". Og det staves for resten også "udlænding" og ikke udllæning". Meget sødt ellers. Og lige en sidste ting din engelske sætning "to take some body with you" staves 1) somebody i ét ord og ikke to, med mindre du mener man tager "en krop" og 2) with og ikke whit.
Var der andet, du ville diskriminere?
engladtur 10 months ago
@andreasnorup true, it can be pronounced that way, but it's not correct. It's often said that way, though. It's not me, but mæ. It's more like a dialect.
mroldnewbie 10 months ago
The Danish language sounds like someone throwing up. I guess that evolved in tandem with their notorious binge drinking. What a crap, overrated country.
tinkernator 10 months ago
@tinkernator you look like something someone threw up ... stfu
TEMPORARILYAWESOME 10 months ago
It is an unaspirated 'th' sound, like with or beth, but with a clipped ending, that draws the tongue backward, simulating a glottal stop
ninerdanish 10 months ago
the point of this video: there is no point of this video.
TheRealTimious 10 months ago
She's saying 'mad' like meal, not 'med' like with ....
TheMiniPernille 10 months ago
Im danish, and my father is german, and my friends american and only danish people can hear that theres no L in "med", all other hear an L in "med", which is very wierd, but okay, so is the danish language! So stop calling this stupid, cause hes not the only one hearing the L
aquillianx 10 months ago
@aquillianx It's because they simply don't have the soft d, so they don't know how it sounds. Well, the American actually does, so it's curious that they can't hear the d.
mroldnewbie 10 months ago
Det fordi danskere ikke kan høre det. Jeg kan godt høre et L i det.
xbankaix007 10 months ago
@xbankaix007 der er ikke på nogen måde noget der er tæt på at lyde som et L i med, underligt at du som dansker ikke engang kan høre det ..
TEMPORARILYAWESOME 10 months ago
@xbankaix007 Nej, det er fordi folk ikke kan høre lyde de ikke har lært, så det er lige omvendt. Vi kan høre D, fordi vi kan skelne den bløde D lyd fra L. Den bløde D lyd er den lyd som udlændinge har klart sværest ved at finde ud af, fordi den slet ikke er et d, men derimod et ð., Tænk på ord som bal – bad, mal – mad. Specielt i det første tilfælde, her er ba udtalt helt identisk, kun l og d er forskellige. Der er en klart forskel på de to udtaler.
mroldnewbie 10 months ago
theres no way in hell you can hear a l in there.. stupid..
baconfromhell666 11 months ago
"Mel" means flour in danish..
And it's a soft "d" so it sounds like "th".. But if you mumble it sounds different..
ChocolateLoverGirlxD 11 months ago
There is no "L" there it's a thick "D" !
VegardMinde 11 months ago
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VegardMinde 11 months ago
i saw an D, i heard an L ... insane :)
ineseyn 11 months ago
sure what a mystery...
its what you call a soft D , learn before teaching pls
Thepapkasse 11 months ago 2
Lol hvor latterligt :O
JanniFrost16 11 months ago
You're wrong and the video is retarded. There's no "l"-sound here, however slowly you play it.
LaurentRascal 11 months ago 2
Being Danish, I cannot hear an L at all, all I hear is the soft D-sound. And no, it's not like the "th"-sound in English, I really have no idea how to explain it, ha ha. But I guess most foreigners' ears hear it as more of an L-sound.
Pekin1st 11 months ago
@Pekin1st You're wrong, it actually is like the th sound, but in modified form. Unlike the "th" sound, in Danish it's never the first letter in a word. It's called a voiced dental fricative, and the soft "d" is the same as the Icelandic letter "ð". It's a pity we don't use that letter instead of d, since it's much more appropriate. Just think of the Danish word fader, and the English word father. Obviously, the "a" sounds different.
mroldnewbie 10 months ago
its med not mel
SuckmyDick709 11 months ago
you can clearly see shes placering her tongue behind the teeth to form a 'D', not an 'F'
perjensen18 11 months ago
that doesn't sound like an l at all :P i'm danish..
MATechz 1 year ago
@MATechz yeah it's a "dh"!
Duathos 10 months ago
danish is hard.....and dum :-/
and i live in denmark :L
crap x-I
theninja0508 1 year ago
I guess that according to some of the comments the english words " the, that, their, theese," and with, both,path,smooth " not to mention " bother, rather "or " mother "and "father " could as well be spelled like ; " le,la,leir, leese" , " wil, bol,pal,smool " , " boler, raler " " moler" and " faler ". hmm - well ok len, from now on lat is le new way of spelling lem in order to meet le delicate english ear and it´s refined and sofisticated demands on it´s own terms.
BongoBib 1 year ago
@BongoBib No....she is not saying "meth" is she? So do not compare it to the English "th" sound because it is different. It is simple and nothing to get irritated about. To most foreign ears it is a sort of "l" and to Danes it is a soft "d". So we hear the same, we call it somehting different. That s all.
Serenoj69 1 year ago
@Serenoj69 try not to pay somuch attention to what the girl says in this footage,as already pointed out she is, atleast the first time, pronouncing the word somewhat distorted, probably due to surpise from being asked. Yes, it is infact "meth", only; as I stated it earlier compared to the usual "th" consonant as in the ending of " with" it´s supposed to be shorter, less whispering,hence the suggest to insert the initiating consonant in " the " at the end of " m+e ,e pronounced as ea in Hampstead
BongoBib 1 year ago
@Serenoj69 yes I do compare it to the english " th " , but the " initiating th " not the ending " th ", I do that because theyre absolutely 100 % identical. The reason why as you suggest, " to the english ear " they sound different, and you might tend to hear an " L " sound might very well be that you´re not acustomed to hear that soft D in the end of a word, and then psycologically construct a sound in your mind that fits better with the expected.
BongoBib 1 year ago
@Serenoj69 notice, that if you investigate from a scientific phonetic point of view, in order to make an " L " sound, you´d raise your tounge ( even let the tip meet the palate ) which isn´t in any way the case here ( tip of tongue softly leaning against backside of lower front teeth instead of as expected the upper, allowing tongue to lean slightly forward and ,when exaggerating it in order to instruct, even let it come out a bit, which though isn´t really the supposedly correct manner)
BongoBib 1 year ago
lol
Monkeymooth 1 year ago
FUNNY. but we like them anyway. =)
olavoskarsen 1 year ago
Both are correct - but coming from different languages. In English "L" has two sounds. The first "L" in 'little' is like in "LUH" (tip of your tongue flips on the back of your top teeth), the second "L" has the sound lke "EL" (voice stops before your tongue flips). In some languages, those two "L" sounds would be written with different characters.
The sound at the end of Danish 'med' is the very soft "EL" sound. Danish speakers don't recognise it as an "L" sound, but English speakers do!
Gordonedwardmurray 1 year ago
@Gordonedwardmurray thank you for sorting out the " L - l " question considering the spoken english language.There is however not the least trace of any L,big or small to be heard in the danish word "med " as it isn´t here in the footage either.Like Someone2Follow points out, it´s simply a matter of taking the english " th " sound as known e g from the initial consonant sound in the word " the " and add it to the first 2 letters ( m + e , - the e pronounced somewhat like the ea in Hampstead )
BongoBib 1 year ago
@Gordonedwardmurray Boompieper is Dutch, I am sort of Dutch (lived in NL all my life). And we hear exactly the same. It is okey for me if Danes hear a D. But when someone talks about hearing problems I wonders who has them. Us or someone who says that this L sound is the same as the English "th" sound...It is not even close.
Serenoj69 1 year ago
M-E-D!
The d is pronounced ð, so it's a soft kind of d. Like pronouncing "the" in English. Exact same sound. LOOKS similar, but hey, not everyone knows how to read lips.
Someone2Follow 1 year ago
hvorfor skulle der være et "L" i "med" jeg spørg bare?
English:
why should there be a "L" in "med" I'm just asking
hvam02 1 year ago
The first time i can hear it as Mel, slightly if i force myself. When she repeats Med later, i seriously can't hear it as Mel anymore.
I think it's because he confused her it came out differently.
Nurken7 1 year ago
@Nurken7
Yeah, I might have dazed her. A little bit..
boompieper 1 year ago
@Nurken7 I was in København last month and said Flølbolle (written as flødebolle). And than asked the young men in the gasstation if I pronounced it correctly. Yes, it was perfect...."Yes?" Yes he assured me and repeated the word from what we call a Negerzoen over here. Or used to call, before politically correct people found it offensive to negroes. Danmark is a copy of The Netherlands btw. I went by car. Was there for 5 days. Never felt abroad. Like I was not having an holiday at all....
Serenoj69 1 year ago
@Nurken7
hun er da en tosse...
RelaxedGameplays 10 months ago
The Danish way to pronounce d on the end of a word is a bit like when the English language is using a word with th, such as "weather" or "with". A very soft d.
For my Norwegian ears, anyway!
MrBineka 1 year ago
psh. then what does an L sound like in danish??
dragonairlover 1 year ago
@dragonairlover it sounds like when you pronounce "el" in Spanish. Danish isn't all that difficult ;)
Someone2Follow 1 year ago
@Someone2Follow oh. haha.
dragonairlover 1 year ago
Im danish. I just think blondie is pure stupid and cant speak normal... MAD
Jogger2640 1 year ago
Sounds like a "l" to me.
semicroma 1 year ago
My mom speaks Danish. Since I heard Danish so much growing up, but hardly ever spoke it, I can hear many of the different sounds but can't pronounce them.
Stubbzuki 1 year ago
After a baby reaches about 4 years old, the baby's brain has learned the special sounds of the language (or languages) the baby has been exposed to. Adults have to struggle to teach their brains to learn the difference in sounds like /ch/ and /sh/ if their mother tongue doesn't have it, whereas if they had grown up hearing the sounds it would be easy. I hear something kind of like an /l/ here, but I can't pronounce it right.
Stubbzuki 1 year ago
This vid shows a whole new degree of failure...
WeThoughtWrong 1 year ago
Are you half deaf or have a hearing disorder or something?
TheDane95 1 year ago 8
@TheDane95
Yeah, I do. It's pretty bad. Doctors give me about 60 more years, that's it.
boompieper 1 year ago 13
One word: PHONOLOGY.
shohisbubbleking 1 year ago
YAWN!
stealdealkill 1 year ago
slowing down the video so it sounds like she's burping doesn't prove anything...
killerdynam0 1 year ago
@killerdynam0
But it's F-U-N-N-Y. And no, that's not open for discussion.
boompieper 1 year ago
Did she say MILF :O
fagrestryn 1 year ago
@fagrestryn no... she said ''med''. it's the danish word for ''with'' :)
MRmortenMR 1 year ago
Hey guys I really can hear a 'L' in this world, so softly as they (Danes) are talking about, and sincerely I prefer a 'D' that sounds like an 'L' than an 'I' that you never now how it sounds in a world in English, like (ai), idiot (i) and other oddities :)
frankperished 1 year ago
Amazing that this still gets flames. To Danes' POV, it's a 'D' sound. To non-Danes' POV, it sounds like an 'L' sound. Why? Because a final 'D' is soft in enunciation. In fact, many Danes will teach you to stick out your tongue to exaggerate the softness. AS A SIDE EFFECT, we non-Danes hear this 'L' sound. I repeat, AS A SIDE EFFECT, we interpret this strange soft sound as an L. It's the CLOSEST SOUND we got in English.
akujinnoeso 1 year ago
@akujinnoeso no, - the closest and practically the identical sound is the " th " as you ought to know very well from the initial consonant sound in the english word " the ". Also the ending consonant in the english word " with " got some basic similarity, though in that case it tends to be drawn a bit longer and overall exaggerated.But even in that case - you do not hear any " L " sound in the english word " with " do you ? I don´t nkow why this was ever brought up - some hearing disabilities ?
BongoBib 1 year ago
I'll be in Denmark for a week near Christmas. Now many things seem to be closed...If I have really really really nothing to do I could of course visit one of the few pubs that are opened and start a discussion about the strange "L" sound . That should keep me busy for quite some time I guess...
Serenoj69 1 year ago
@Serenoj69 there is no " L sound " - unless you think there´s an " L sound " in the end of the english word " with " or and " L sound " in the beginning of the english word " the "
BongoBib 1 year ago
@BongoBib Do you notice that virtually only Danes say it is a soft "d" and others hear an L. So the solution is simple: Danes call this sound a "D" the rest of the world call it an "L". To my ears, it does not even come close to the English "th" sound. It is way of. It seems to me that some see this as some sort of an attack on their language, may be identity. Do some over here think that if they insist it is a D others will than change their opinion? To Dutch ears: this is an "L". Period.
Serenoj69 1 year ago
hahaha I was on the plane going to Norway and I sat next to a dane and I struck up a conversation and I couldn't understand half of what he was saying. He asked me " Hva heter du?" and it dounded like Hvo huella due? hahaha
HailThyDrumKit 1 year ago
that really doesnt sounds like an l.
ÜBER FAIL!!!!!
FcK2420 1 year ago 30
@FcK2420
Wow. That was german. And english. In one sentence. From someone who's obviously from Denmark. You keep amazing me.
boompieper 1 year ago
@boompieper i know. you amaze me too cos obviously you're ears are faulted.
FcK2420 1 year ago
@boompieper German..? It doens´t sound like german at all, how did you get that idea..?
wayneerforsej 1 year ago
@wayneerforsej
You're actually saying 'ÜBER' isn't a German word?
boompieper 1 year ago
@FcK2420 You wouldnt understand
lashlashlashlashlash 9 months ago
The Danish language has a silent d a hard d and a d the silent sounds like th or sometimes l
midaspower21 1 year ago 2
@opinumsen
I'm thinking your Danish and not too bright yourself.
boompieper 1 year ago
@boompieper well im not danish, im not bright. Dont you get how stupid you are? are you seriously wondering why people from other countries pronounce their words differently?
opinumsen 1 year ago
@opinumsen
Again with the offensiveness..I thought you Danish people were a friendly, neutral, peaceful bunch. Guess it's a different story when it comes to posting replies to a video on youtube. Can't you seriously see a joke when it smacks you in the face?
boompieper 1 year ago
@boompieper
Sorry, you're not Danish. Guess that's what you get for not taking the time to read (or watch) someone's message (or video) completely, but choose to respond anyway. Isn't it?
boompieper 1 year ago
@boompieper Our friendliness and neutralism is seriously overrated. Though, we are some who aren't offended of a simple video on YouTube that shows our pronunciation... ;)
I see you point, but as I am danish too, I really hear a D, not an L :) I think she is pronouncing it in a slightly distorted way (or what ever you call it :D) because she says the word alone and not in a context :)
MathiasJ94 1 year ago
@boompieper We are. But as in all other countries, we have some individuals who don't understand the concept of humor :-)
This guys name translates to "Up your butt" by the way.
Bonusaben 1 year ago
@boompieper you're*
Frejalise 1 year ago
For the 'soft D', just rest your tongue at the bottom of your mouth, so that the tip of the tongue slightly touches the inside of your lower front teeth.
When you say 'L', you touch just behind the UPPER front teeth.
Simple as that :)
krobysfbaf27 1 year ago 2
The danish soft 'D' is pronounsed without the slight pull back of the tongue. You just stick out the tongue between the teeth (not biting it) while making the sound.
The english 'L' makes your tongue do the same movement, but it ends with a pull back of the tip of the tongue, placing the tip just behind the upper frontal teeth.
Try it for your self. the placement of the tongue is often what makes a slight but existing difference. You don't notice if you're not aware of it.
MrAnalspasme 1 year ago 2
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MrAnalspasme 1 year ago
No 'L' - what you hear is a 'soft D'. But you're right - people who knows too little about Danish language to express themselves about it often think so.
kode1303 1 year ago
In danish its called a soft d. When pronouncing a soft d, your tounge is touching your bottom lip. But when making an L sound its touching your palate with the tip.
Vman2k7 1 year ago
@kkldk18
Ahaha, your comment made me laugh. I hope you slept it off okay. xD
I tried that, and it sounds good to me... of course, I wouldn't know what's right, but it's probably better than before! I only know a little Danish right now, but I'm slowly learning.
Tak!
eeeemeeee 1 year ago
I don't really care (Dane here), but uhh.... i head no L??
Its more like like the TH in THE
Canine021 1 year ago
I don't really care (Dane here), but uhh.... i head no L??
Canine021 1 year ago
Could the unreleased 'D' contain an intermediate 'L' sound?
For example, in English, the word 'sense' is sometimes phonetically spelled in dictionaries as "sehnts", with that 'T' being in superscript. That's because it's difficult (at least in English) to go from 'n' to 's' without that intermediate T-sound stage. Thus, most English speakers are unaware that 'sense' can rhyme with 'rents' or 'dents', or even be a homonym with 'cents'.
Might this be what's going on in Danish?
JoeNYCBoi 1 year ago
GOD MAD
stok12 1 year ago
Hehe, I know that that's the Danish 'soft D' and not really an L, but it definitely sounds like an L to me. xD
I would like to learn to hear the difference between a soft D and a real L, because right now I can't....
eeeemeeee 1 year ago
how do you get it as an L? xD
hippiefisken 1 year ago
The D is like THe, in THe ass, THe car and so on...
Gonzohatt123 1 year ago
my girl speaks danish and even she says its stupid
helloimtank 1 year ago
@helloimtank - Well, "your girl" sounds like a very reliable source. Hahah
0lifr 1 year ago
Look, it's a very special 'd' sound that is really common in the danish language. We use it all the time. I'm pretty sure it's called a 'soft d' and it's really hard to say, if you did'nt grow with the language as your mothers tongue.
Monicaplay123 1 year ago
@Monicaplay123 Don't talk about my mother's tongue like that.
yurismir1 1 year ago
@yurismir1 Excuse me? It's my mother's tongue too.
Monicaplay123 1 year ago
there is no "L" sound can't you here that i'm danish and i say this word every day so i think i now that there is no "L" sound
MsSkattemus 1 year ago
First, I'm American. It does sound like an [l] and not the phonetic [d]. The danish sounds more of a hard l. With the d in med is like a softer, uncompleted, less vibrated [ð] (is th like in mother), but same placement of tongue. You could do interdental perhaps. I think Danes (I'm just guessing) hear a jump or vibration in d, and l sound is without that. But, they both are /l/ in English This is probably what it is like when a Japanese person hears and r and l they can't tell the difference.
drax325 1 year ago
@drax325 - Good comment! ..But I think you mean dark L, when you say hard L? I understand why our pronunciation of d - must be strange to hear for English speakers. But when you point out an abnormal feature of our language, then you're actually also pointing out the same in your own language. In English, the value of L, like the Danish d, is depending on whether it's placed before or after a vowel. The L's of words like Loop and Well - are not the same.
@stedetforaske - awesome!
0lifr 1 year ago
I speak perfect danish, I am communications manager for a cell ph. company in Denmark. Every danish household I call, loves my voice, girls want me, as well as their mothers, because my voice is super native and KRISP. I might be a Dane or Not. But I get the job done...clean... TONE; LONE; PIA; KIA; og TINA M. Love it. Værsgo!
stedetforaske 1 year ago
@0lifr and @d0dge25 : Do u really think that its worth to fight which language is more hysteric or more beautiful? Every language is a differend system used in a different society. And every language is beautiful and meaningful in its own way.
But as long as you dont accept that there is more than your own little world you will never understand that!
scholemlegen 1 year ago
@scholemlegen .A whole language is reduced to - the "funny one" - by a person from a more prominent and historically dominant culture. What do you expect a speaker of that language to do?
0lifr 1 year ago
This is HILARIOUS XD only cus ive been trying to teach my bf danish for sooo long ( he is english ) and i thought it was just HIM who couldnt get the whole D - NO L - thing.... LOL!
Love your video :P made me laugh
aqill90 1 year ago
That's why danish is the "funny one" of the nordish languages :D
Now repeat after me and apply what you have learned about the "d" :
Rødgrøde med fløde
xD
d0dge25 1 year ago
@d0dge25 - Well, it's called nordic - not nordish.
Also, a German labeling Danish as 'funny' !
That's fucking laughable .
0lifr 1 year ago
@0lifr
now what have we here, a nitpicker ...
Might be your perspective. For a German this language sounds hysterical, believe me.
Anyway, we had our fun with danish friends, FISK and "Pepperschnapps" that recent weekend.
d0dge25 1 year ago
@d0dge25 - Just call it nitpicking, but I don't accept any German criticism. Germans have always seen Denmark, well Scandinavia, as their own backyard. Danish might sound hysterical to you, but the German language has a status of being one of the world's most parodied languages. Now, this is not just due to a couple of wars, it's also because of the ridiculous German sounds. Harsh sounds like your ch-digraph, that contrast with your s- and tz-sounds only used by teenage girls in other countries.
0lifr 1 year ago
After a vocal, the Danes pronounce -d as a soft kind of -ð. This sound is quite close to your th-digraph, but also close to the velarized -l of the English language. Few languages use -l like you do. And m0nsen93, trust me, neither Danish nor English is ever going to win the award for most beautiful language!
0lifr 1 year ago
It's an unreleased D.
Esoparagon 1 year ago
@Esoparagon
I'm not gonna wait till they release it, I'm downloading that thing!
boompieper 1 year ago
@boompieper Very funny. It's very characteristic for the danish language. When we talk, we have to go all the way back to our throats to get the right sound. When you talk english, you mostly talk at the tip of your tongue.
Monicaplay123 1 year ago
dude .. there is no L :D
aminadeluca 1 year ago
Danish language is like listening to a pig choking on a dick trying to speak japanese.
These, I said it.
m0nsen93 1 year ago
I'm laughing so hard over some of these comments. Danes are getting really pissed over the fact that this guy hears an L. No offense to Danes or anything, 'cause I'm Danish myself, but seriously, chill out! I really thinks it cute that he can't hear it the way we hear it.
The reason we hear 'med' with a 'soft D', is simply because we grew up with the sound, that we don't hear it as an L.
SimoneBochsen 1 year ago 24
@SimoneBochsen
Thanks for that. That's pretty much all it's supposed to be. Cute and funny. No linguistic attack on the Danish language.
boompieper 1 year ago
der er fucking ikke L i med din ratederet idiot!!!!!! nej nej nej nej hva fuck sker der for dig............ få dig dog et liv til at starte med.........
mano2105 1 year ago
@mano2105
Riiiight...I really only got 'fucking' and 'idiot', so I guess you're not complementing me on my filming skills...?
boompieper 1 year ago 10
@boompieper no on her speaking danish and your commont on you hear l in the sentenc
mano2105 1 year ago
@boompieper The D sound at the end of "med" is similar to the english 'th' sound, but much closer to the spanish 'd' as in Madrid for example.
LEH3500 1 year ago
@boompieper better you dont understand what he wrote. but basically he is claiming that there is no L in "med" and asking hisself how you come to the idea that there is one... in an ... erm ... not exactly polite way^^
scholemlegen 1 year ago
@boompieper Haha. He just cussed you out and basically called you a retarded idiot, funny thing is, I've never seen the danish word for "retarded" misspelled so horribly.
Anyway I know this video is old, but if you're still wondering: try to stick out your tongue when pronoucing the soft D-sound in this word.
Then compare it to when your tongue presses against the roof of your mouth as in a normal L-sound.
If you can't hear the difference, you should be able to feel it ;)
Uberownager 1 year ago
@boompieper its without the ''L'' its M E D
qa901 1 year ago
@boompieper Dont worry he said it was fucking good done and those who said otherwise is an idiot XD Or thats what you should hear!!
janggo0 1 year ago
@mano2105 Retarderet. Det staves retarderet. Lidt uretfærdigt, at du sviner en udlænding til fordi han ikke kan vores sprog, nu du åbenbart selv har lidt problemer med det og du tilmed har det som modersmål.
Mesterse 1 year ago
@mano2105 I come from sweden (skåne) and I don't understand a.. thing
DigitalChoklad 1 year ago
@DigitalChoklad thats a shame, cus all they are speaking 'except' for one word is english in this video.
AwsomSid 1 year ago
@AwsomSid
I'm talking about danish, when I meet one, I don't understand what they are saying
DigitalChoklad 5 months ago
@mano2105 you're a faggot
0Crystallize0 1 year ago
Well yeah it's not a D because a D is NOT ASPIRATED. That is the difference. Dumb danes, Spelling with a D then aspirating it.
fastguy45 1 year ago
i am from denmark and its called "med"
sichlaubruun 1 year ago
it is what we in denmark calls a soft D .. def. not L :)
Ditte999 1 year ago
Yo, Boomie: My German-Swedish-slightly Finnish ears and eyes saw and heard the girls making a "th" sound -- just like in English "with", so that makes sense. :-)
Stuff you don't learn to listen for when you're very little, you'll never be able to hear. Ergo: If you'd taken this lesson when you were younger than, say, seven, you'd be quite sure that that's NOT an "l" "soouuund"; since you didn't, to your ears, it "IS".
That's a property more of your ears than of what they're actually saying.
CRConrad42 1 year ago
Oh its actual really easy guys ! :)
Ok, the soft D in danish is very simular to the "the" sound in english.
"med" ends with a soft D. :)
EurovisionSongFreak 1 year ago
Who cares if there is an L or not...
With a potato in the mouth, every one speaks Danish.. ;)
umulius71 1 year ago
@umulius71 And where are you from mate? :b
Wikk90 1 year ago
@Wikk90 I am from Germany, but i live in Norway since 1974.
umulius71 1 year ago
not meld but "med", it means "with" fx. Kom med os = Come with us.
MegaRocket00 1 year ago
Danish kids learn to speak a half year later then there neighbors Sweden/Norway. This is not because Danish kids is stupier but because not even them understand there parents. It's been proven in studies.
For me from Sweden they sound like really drunk Norweigians trying to talk:)
Lassemalten 1 year ago
@Lassemalten Because we are drunk! :D Lol. JK!
Wikk90 1 year ago
For the sake of arguing. Im Danish (yeah), and what WE, and english ppl too, percieve as an L-'sound', is quite different from our 'ending'-D-'sound' (yeah its a mess), though you might just hear our 'ending'-D-'sound' as a 'lazy' L. Try saying the 'L-sound' without touching any part of your upper mouth with your toungue. And do a proper L-sound, not like 'melany', but more like Lee - because ppl tend to shorten pronounciation when its a part of a bigger word. There's your danish D
jalle71002 1 year ago
there is no fucking 'L' sound -.- the danish way of pronouncing the letter 'D' is just something that foreigners almost never understand or are able to do, but there is NO 'L' . . . . doesn't even sound like it, if you knew danish you'd also know what a dnish 'L' sounds like, which is different...
skyt92 1 year ago 5
@skyt92
Not again...I must say, Danish people (assuming you're Danish) denying that this at least sooounnnds like an 'L' opens up a whole new discussion. It's like the Japanese denying that they're slaughtering dolphins. Everyone knows it, but still...Love your patriotism though, keep it up!
boompieper 1 year ago
@boompieper it's not about patriotism, and it's not about fact. There ARE other languages in the world than english (assuming you are american) and not all letters sound the same in all languages, so it's basically about ignorance.
skyt92 1 year ago
@skyt92
Ignorance, indeed. That's what I implied with my little Japanese analogy. And if you would have taken the time to read some of the other comments, instead of just posting the same comment every other angry Dane posts, you would've seen me stretching the fact that I'm not American, and am well familiar with people calling my language a throat disease.
boompieper 1 year ago
@boompieper
Hi im danish, I hear the L when girl 1 say it, but I dont know why she put that saount in, that is not normal
SigmacMusic 1 year ago
@skyt92 It's an ´L´ you dany dane.
/a swede
soulfyah 1 year ago
@skyt92 There is a way to find out who is right. Say "med" and record, say "mel" and record, load into Matlab, copy the last letter of each word a separate array. Now, run an fft on each, observe the spectrum, also, do the cross-correlation and see the output. That would pretty much solve the whole debate in a scientific manner using basic signal processing.
flamesholder 1 year ago
@flamesholder omfg -.-' is that how you would "study" eg russian aswell? they don't even have the letter L!
skyt92 1 year ago
@skyt92 of course we do! "л" ! How else would we able to write Lenin - Ленин ! It's not about the letter, it's about the sound!
flamesholder 1 year ago
@skyt92 Relax. Non-Danes hear an "L" sound. And when we say it with an "L" sound, you hear a soft "D". So chill or chid.... xD
icywind1980 1 year ago
There's no "L" sound you goddamn retard -.-
M3t4lManiac 1 year ago
@M3t4lManiac
You watch your mouth young man...
And you're wrong. I think pretty much everyone would agree that there's an L SOUND. If there's one linguistically speaking, I'll leave that up for discussion.
boompieper 1 year ago
@boompieper I watch my mouth? :P You watch yours old man. Nope, there's no "l" sound I really can't see how you can hear that. "L" sounds are made by applying your tongue to the palate, the soft "d" in the Danish language is made by applying the tongue to the tip of your upper front teeth. If you pronounce the sounds you'd be able to hear it. The only close connection between the two are the throat-sounds, which are close, but still not quite the same.
M3t4lManiac 1 year ago
@M3t4lManiac
I'm not the one being offensive here...
For the sake of the argument, try and make an 'L' sound by putting to the tip of your upper front teeth...Works pretty damn good, doesn't it?
boompieper 1 year ago
@boompieper For the sake of the argument, give it up. You're wrong, live with it. It only "works" because you put the back of your tongue against the palate while making the sound. Do you know how the strings on a guitar works? It's the "blocking" of the tone closest to the source that matters. To be clearer, you have to put your tongue against the palate to even make the "l" sound.
M3t4lManiac 1 year ago
@M3t4lManiac
Ok, I'm wrong. And OK, I'll give up. Just after this. I'm not talking about how to make a linguistically correct L, as you seem to be. I'm talking about the 'soooound', just the sound. And there's no problem making an 'L' SOUND by putting your tongue against your front teeth in stead of your palate. See the clip.
There. I give up. No more reactions. Unless you get offensive again, then I'll have to go all smartass again.
O, and the guitar thing really cleared things up. Thanks!
boompieper 1 year ago
@boompieper It's not the same sound.
M3t4lManiac 1 year ago
@dracullia whear do you get off? norwegian is not 70% danish, LOL! yo must be gay o sumn
imthewatchman 1 year ago
There is no L sound in med..The closest is an "th" as in in the word "the" or "bath". Stop eating hamburgers and watch westernmovies, it might clear your ears..
meharidude 1 year ago
this is also bothered me... sounds dafnitely mel
sourzzon 1 year ago
mil?
gangstervural 1 year ago